Drugs

Drug

A drug is any substance other than food, that when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin or dissolved under the tongue causes.

Amazonian shamans use ayahuasca (yagé) a hallucinogenic brew for this purpose. Some shamans from different cultures use entheogens, defined as "generating the divine within" to achieve religious ecstasy. Its use is to facilitate visionary states of consciousness during spiritual healing sessions. Mazatec shamans have a long and continuous tradition of religious use of Salvia divinorum a psychoactive plant.

On the other hand, there are many recreational drugs that are legal in many jurisdictions and widely culturally accepted.

Obama's planned meeting with Philippines leader thrown into doubt

33 minutes ago What is certainly true is that the issues of how we approach fighting crime and drug trafficking is a serious one for all of us, and we've got to do it.

On Monday, he showed no signs of backing down in his anti-drug campaign.

An arbitration court in The Hague invalidated China's vast territorial claims to the waterway after a case was brought by the Philippines, though Beijing refuses to recognize that July ruling.

The Philippines has been a key U.S. ally in its dispute with China over the South China Sea, where Washington blames Beijing for militarising a vital global trade route and jeopardizing freedom of movement at sea and in the air.

Earlier, Duterte made it clear he would not be lectured on human rights by Obama, adding that "plenty will be killed" before the end of a crackdown that has led to the deaths of about 2,400 people since he became president two months ago.

(Additional reporting by Neil Jerome Morales in DAVAO CITY and Michael Martina in HANGZHOU; Editing by Mike Collett-White).

"Who is he to confront me? As a matter of fact, America has one too many to answer for," he said.